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Gentoo: GLSA-200904-08 Normal: OpenSSL Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey April 7, 2009
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A Denial of Service vulnerability in OpenSSL can be triggered during the process of displaying the details of certificates. Please upgrade to the latest version to mitigate this issue.
An error in OpenSSL might allow for a Denial of Service when printing certificate details.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200904-08 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: OpenSSL: Denial of Service Date: April 07, 2009 Bugs: #263751 ID: 200904-08

Synopsis ======= An error in OpenSSL might allow for a Denial of Service when printing certificate details.
Background ========= OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) as well as a general purpose cryptography library.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-libs/openssl < 0.9.8k >= 0.9.8k
========== The ASN1_STRING_print_ex() function does not properly check the provided length of a BMPStr...

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